New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-21
TWENTIETH CHINAMEN CAUGHT.

POLICEMEN BATTER DOWN THREE DooRs-TIME
GIVEN TO CONCEAL THE "LAY-OUTs."
Cinnamon have great faith in the old saying that ligh
ming never strikes twice in the same pace
and on Monday last, the day after Captain
Allaire made raid on the opium "Joint
and gambling place at No. 80 Bowery another
set OF Cinnamon who known to the po"eo
rs "Tom Lees gang" opened ")oiht q.
No Al Bowery adjoining the old place, and cohhec'eu
with II by a door In the rear. oncer c""''
kept his eve on the basement OF No Al all last Wees
patience rewarded on Wednesday by hearing ,y n
that place being fitted mp for the ohna%eh T,.
I'm the evening he saw couple Of innocent-ooSing un,
mn and down the street thcy glided down the stairs 10
the basement dO)r, struck the door In pecuar mm
came along and Disappeared behind the doors below
which seemed to by an unseen hand Ihre @ where
no doubt that a Join had been started ana Mnr,p t
there is an opium joint. there will gambling DO l4
Officer Sands the following evening milsr srrrE seer ,s -
steps and hurredlv the doors the peculiar tees' m
tap They opened aud The officer Mas "a, snake rwo
pipefuls OF opium which cost fifteen cents eaeh hu m
Onrcr sands went before Justice Murray and secured
warrant in blank as OF the names was known ~,
sSs Ss' e ened out Of bed by of
Captain Allare. Sergeant Dahgreei was nn. III ~ c,,i
zcns' clothes for the Bowery. A large number OF
Cinnamon. it wat reported had gone et, imio led led
the way 10 the basement and the familiar chinese
tap The door did open. No noise was withn hn ~
Bn It made no difference thirty outside who
/ had come with hntchcts. crowbars am ,tsn az y
Two doors broken open in succession and then
third found which was made OF heavy tlmpers AN, anu
covered with iron netting 1t took about nnec minn,r5s
knock the obstruction down In fact inc uool e i
he broken and only when the axes sank hs % oo
the PARTITION alongside that feeble voice was hefu VI
| the inside that said with Chinese accent:
a friend" replied Officer Sands
| "No friends wanted here came back family .
"Opcn the door I'll knock down Tie building z, on
your heads" said Sergeant Dallccn Bolts ana nal
were Leaid rafting the INSIDE and the door opehe
without any being seen. inside was
large chamber family lighted with With .i,1inc Sns
silently and as innocently children some were asiee
and did not know what going on and srowle,o
ened. not sign Of gambling was TO be seen
and the free from the paraphcrnaha Oh n W
/ opium Joint" Methodist meeting nouse; ;
/ All the Cinnamon were arrested They pictendcu th'
they did know what was heant All protcssl tiia @
they had only been In the place live minutes ana M" m
come in Tor a cup of tea with friend. They Al saiu
they aundrymcn. They were taken 10 the EidiIs @
Street station some OF them objected to going ana na
10 be persuaded otherwise than gently; AT me sa,i
they searched all of them ad from 80 10 Too
Onicer sand could identity only of them, one being
a nne-ooking Chinaman with short hair dressed dressed
H. American s"iG TO be i'H Charley Toy. the pro
prictor. He did not know what the place was uWt ne
his wife who is a Catholic The other Al Lee
young Cnnan,n, the cashier ON him wi- found ToU ~
bill aud SOB In silver. lie ais" hau nnr Jus o
tea. twenty-five prisoners we're taken r1, TO th' dT
station mi IL IL thought that some got away ihcy "
gave false names. 49,.
all the lights turned on AMI IL was fouhi 10 pc
hnclv-ittcd up place for Joint win the axes hoo
were made the floors and walls and opium pipes AN
gambling ayouls were found on All shicS nc.c WV
counters Chinese policy slips and numbers o al y
outs. domiuoes. fan-tan 'ountcs, waicr pms
lamps. bncsboaris. opium scales and various thing
used by thuanen In their gtnbllhs gah'N
The only charge that he substanaied asainsi %,
place is that opium smoking The prisoners VIII b'
arraigDcd at The Iombs to-day.